Two Birds with One Stone

[Laura Creighton]

In article <213 at brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell at nbs-vms.arpa (COTTRELL, JAMES) writes:
>If you don't like my opinions, fine. But you don't have to insult me.
>Any fool can do that. There are a whole lot worse & uninformed opinions
>on this network. Just for a moment step outside your way of looking at
>things and consider what if it was my way. Do you *really* enjoy 
>contorting your code so that it will run on every conceivable machine?

But I don't have to contort my code.  All I had to do was work with
Henry Spencer.  You come out of that thinking portably, and then you
write portable code without contortions.  The contortions come when you
have to port SOMEBODY ELSE'S code and they DIDN'T THINK PORTABLY.  What is 
there to do? You can't buy all of these people off. If I were sufficiently
rich i would pay those people to stay at home and not write code until
they were willing to write protably -- but of course I don't have that
kind of cash.
-- 
Laura Creighton		
sun!l5!laura		(that is ell-five, not fifteen)
l5!laura at lll-crg.arpa